I studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
BELA LUGOSII studied at the Budapest Academy of Theatrical Arts for four years and emerged with a degree.
BELA LUGOSIIn Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.
BELA LUGOSIMartyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
BELA LUGOSITo win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula.
BELA LUGOSIThe stage is near and dear to me.
BELA LUGOSIWomen have a predestination to suffering.
BELA LUGOSIEvery actor’s greatest ambition is to create his own, definite and original role, a character with which he will always be identified. In my case, that role was Dracula.
BELA LUGOSIOf all the roles I’ve done on the stage, I’m partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
BELA LUGOSIIf my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
BELA LUGOSIIt was hell to go through what I went through. I didn’t know I had so many friends. Many people gave a damn about my situation. They helped cure me.
BELA LUGOSIIt took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.
BELA LUGOSIThe vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
BELA LUGOSII have played Dracula a thousand times on stage and I find I have become thoroughly settled in the technique of the stage and not of the screen.
BELA LUGOSII will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!
BELA LUGOSII look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?
BELA LUGOSICircumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.
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